No More Sand Villages

It’s clip to hide astir rolling up pinch your portable palace connected nan beach.

The coastal municipality of Torrox conscionable made it official: no much tents, nary much canopies, nary much makeshift formation camps. The section assembly voted this week to prohibition them all, arguing that elephantine tents hog nationalist space, artifact lifeguards’ views, and move nan soil into a backstage backyard.

There’s 1 exception: nan norm won’t use during nan celebrated San Juan night, erstwhile bonfires and tents screen nan shore. Apart from that, only schools, disablement groups, aliases different pre-approved collectives get nan greenish light. The remainder of you? Pack light.

The assembly says nan prohibition will support beaches cleaner, safer, and much accessible for emergency vehicles.

Not everyone agrees pinch nan caller rule, arsenic immoderate section politicians are arguing nan measurement is destroying nan Sunday formation culture. In support of this discourse, there’s Nerja, nan neighbouring town. Nerja still allows tents connected El Playazo beach.

But for now, Torrox’s beaches will enactment free of backstage mini-villages. Whether beachgoers cheer nan other abstraction aliases miss those families’ immense tents, remains to beryllium seen.

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